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Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions
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Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions

by Gregor Hohpe, Bobby Woolf
October 2003
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
18h 50m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 5. Message Construction

Introduction

In Chapter 3, “Messaging Systems,” we discussed Message (66). When two applications want to exchange a piece of data, they do so by wrapping it in a message. Whereas a Message Channel (60) cannot transmit raw data per se, it can transmit the data wrapped in a message. Creating and sending a Message (66) raises several other issues.

Message intent—Messages are ultimately just bundles of data, but the sender can have different intentions for what it expects the receiver to do with the message. It can send a Command Message (145), specifying a function or method on the receiver that the sender wishes to invoke. The sender is telling the receiver what code to run. It can send a Document Message (147), ...

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